THE WALKING STICK PROJECT

What one expects in their last stages of life is just a payback for what one has given!

In the course of this creation, there was always a residue left which never got picked up. It got lost and expresses it through disability. This project tries to make their life exuberant and help them find their lost note.

Few generations back, a man struggle was to fight for freedom from the colonial powers. Post that, he fought for bringing bread and butter to the family. After a while, some cloths and a shelter over his head. Wealth got distributed as it got passed on to newer generation making it scarce, hence that generation started to move out of comfort in search of a decent job, education for children and a comfortable living. Today we have all the luxury and we really don’t get what our elders say because that has never come in our experience and of everything, we got our education which taught to question everything makes it even more difficult to accept things which are time again repeated into or ears. When such is the attitude of the generation towards our previous generation, the same education should push us to question ourselves as to what they could not do, they could not, but they what they did, for that at least should we not give back.

Walking stick is pretty much similar to the GoodFellows initiative taken up by Shanthanu Naidu, the personal assistant of Late. Padmashri Awardee Ratan Tata. Old age people require assistance only when they completely become immobile. Any assistance before that, they start to take those helps onto their ego.

Old age people have many things to share but often they keep it to themselves as nothing motivates them to pen their experiences. Every human being is unique in his or her own way, every learning, the way he learns, the experience behind it can only be best articulated by them in his or her own unique way. This would be one of the many activities that a GOODFELLOW would carry out while being a companion of the old aged person.

Tourism is going to be a multi-billion dollar industry in the years to come. People have lot of money but they don’t have peace of mind and travel would be their option to vent their stress out because YOGA is difficult. Guides and people in the hospitality industry would require to mandatorily intern for a year or two in being a GOOD FELLOW. The stipend would come from GRANTS from the Govt. and CSR’s.

One of the most important aspects that the modern India has neglected for a very long time is the way we used to conduct DEATHS. There is world outside the one that we live in, the world which doesn’t agree until there is mathematical proof to it, THAT world has a larger influence on the work that we humans carry out but is largely ignored because we outsourced the work of taking care of them to the Brahmins, Purohits or people who dealt with such unseen forces. These forces are nothing but the forces which have not been put to rest post death of a person. These forces carry a vast amount of unfulfilled wishes, memories of resistance which drag the positive force to move towards negativity. Therefore, the last few years of any old aged person must handled with utmost care because their cost of taking care would not reflect positively on the balance sheets but would affect adversely if we do not start giving importance to it, as we see the ancient old rituals and traditions are slowly wiping off the daily chores of pretty much every society in the world.

As an extension to The Walking Stick project, there is something called as Kala Bhairava Shanthi and Kala Bhairava Kriya which is carried out for the deceased people to put their energies to rest so that they don’t come back again and disturb you.

So GOODFELLOWs and KALA BHAIRAVA KRIYAS are the two main aspects of the THE WALKING STICK Project.